boy, lad
κόρος(B),ὁ, Ion.
κοῦρος, as always in Hom. , Pi. , and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. E. Alc. 904 ), sts. in late Gr., Rev.Et.Gr. 42.247 (Varna); Dor.
κῶρος
Theoc. 15.120 :—
A. boy, lad(even before birth, ὃν . . γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι
Il. 6.59
, cf. Call. Del. 212 ), κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης
Il. 24.347
; πρωθῆβαι
Od. 8.262
; τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει
Il. 4.321
; σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις
A. Fr. 43
: in mock Trag., Οἰδίπου . . παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω
Ar. Fr. 558
: rarein Prose, Pl. Lg. 772a ;male infant, ἔτεκε κόρον
Conon 33.3
, cf. IG 42(1).121.5 (Epid.,iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86 , 12.196 , al.;κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510 , 551 , 562 ; λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ.
E. Supp. 356
; also, ofservantswaiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il. 1.470 , al.; at Sparta,κόροι,
= ἱππεῖς , Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.1.138 .
2. with gen. of pr. n.,son, Od. 19.523 , etc.; Θησέως κ.
S. Ph. 562
, cf. Tr. 644 (lyr.); τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι
E. Supp. 107
;Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες , Eub. 10.6 .
3. puppet, doll, used in Magic, S. Fr. 536 .
II. shoot, sprout, of a tree, κόρους πλεκτοὺς . . μυρρίνης
Lysipp. 9
, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113 , EM 276.28 , Hsch. ; cf.κοῦρος(B).
III. for Comp.
v. κουρότερος . (Acc. to Eust. 582.20 , al., fromκείρω, ofone who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: butκόῥϝ̓ος (masc. ofκόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat.Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)
